The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIPeople run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
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Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
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I never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
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Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom – love – happiness.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
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I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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The tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
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I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
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You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
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Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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